Montag, 19. Januar 2015

"I remember a pretty well known critic said to me 'Anybody that believes what an artist has to say about their work is a damn fool'. So I think I was trying to counteract that. I am always more interested in what an artist has to say about their work."

Montag, 15. Dezember 2014

In verschiedenen Veröffentlichungen greift Karel Martens wiederholt, anstelle eines Künstler-Statements, auf folgende Aufzählung von Farben zurück:"it's a matter of common sense and instinct
somewhere there is a box with the right answer.
it's about finding this box and the key to open it.
the only thing you have to do is to make it Alice blue.

Montag, 10. November 2014

Painting Myself into a Corner, 1979 (15:44 Min.)Keith Haring an der School of Visual Arts, New York

"I am becoming much more aware of movement. The importance of movement is intensified when a painting becomes a performance. The performance (the act of painting) becomes as important as the resulting painting."

Donnerstag, 24. Oktober 2013

"In Jessica Warboys work acts of performance, narrative and contemporary rituals are combined with the sea and the sun to create canvases on a large scale that capture both the traces of a performance and the unpredictable movements of the wind and the waves,"

Donnerstag, 17. Oktober 2013

“Simply to hang a painting on the wall and say that it’s art is dreadful. The whole network is important! Even spaghettini … When you say art, then everything possible belongs to it. In a gallery that is also the floor, the architecture, the color of the walls.”

Mittwoch, 9. Januar 2013

"You can’t really fully understand the work of Cosima von Bonin without looking at her collaboration with other artists. Even when invited to produce a solo exhibition, von Bonin rarely shows up without the input of her friends, either through music, lyrical fragments, fashion accessories, cameo performances, or, and, or [...]The German musician Dirk Von Lowtzow (Tocotronic and Phantom/Ghost) wrote in issue 81 of the Swiss art magazine Parkett that: „She is not molesting.“ He meant that von Bonin is giving us the freedom to make our own way into her work and its world."